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- M. Ella WhippleAmerican physician
- M. Margaret ClarkAmerican medical anthropologist
- M. S. SwaminathanIndian agronomist (1925–2023)
- M. Stanley WhittinghamBritish-American chemist (born 1941)
- M1918 Browning Automatic RifleThe Browning automatic rifle (BAR) is a family of American automatic rifles and machine gu
- Ma Jun (mechanical engineer)Chinese practical man (floruit 200–265)
- Macfarlane BurnetAustralian virologist (1899–1985)
- Madhava of SangamagramaIndian mathematician and astronomer (1340–1425)
- Mae JemisonAmerican astronaut, doctor and engineer (born 1956)
- Magda StaudingerLatvian biologist and botanist (1902–1997)
- Magdalena BermejoSpanish scientist
- Maggie AderinBritish space scientist and science educator (born 1968)
- Mahāvīra (mathematician)9th-century Indian mathematician
- Maiden and married namesClasses of surname
- Maine Women's Hall of FameThe Maine Women's Hall of Fame was created in 1990 to honor the achievements of women asso
- Maja MatarićAmerican computer scientist
- Makoto KobayashiJapanese physicist (born 1944)
- Malabika PramanikCanadian mathematician
- Malcolm HainesMalcolm Golby Haines (12 October 1936 – 13 January 2013) was a British plasma physicist kn
- Malcolm LockheedAmerican aviation engineer (1887–1958)
- Malcolm LongairMalcolm Sim Longair (born 18 May 1941) is a British physicist. From 1991 to 2008 he was th
- Mamta Patel NagarajaAmerican engineer
- Manchurian plagueThe Manchurian plague was a pneumonic plague that occurred mainly in Manchuria in 1910–191
- Mangala NarlikarIndian mathematician (1943–2023)
- Manisha CalebManisha Pranati Caleb is an Indian and Australian astrophysicist whose research has used i
- Manju RayIndian scientist in molecular enzymology and cancer biochemistry
- Manne SiegbahnSwedish physicist (1886–1978)
- Mapping class group of a surfaceIn mathematics, and more precisely in topology, the mapping class group of a surface, some
- Marcello MalpighiItalian biologist and physician
- Marcia BarbosaBrazilian physicist
- Marcia KeithAmerican physicist (1859–1950)
- Marcia P. SwardAmerican mathematician
- Marcus RaichleMarcus E. Raichle (born March 15, 1937) is an American neurologist at the Washington Unive
- Margalith GalunIsraeli lichenologist
- Margaret Allen (surgeon)American surgeon and academic
- Margaret AltmannGerman-American biologist (1900–1984)
- Margaret BradshawBritish-born New Zealand geologist
- Margaret BuckinghamFrench-British biologist
- Margaret BurbidgeBritish-born American astrophysicist
- Margaret BurchinalQuantitative psychologist
- Margaret C. EtterAmerican chemist and crystallographer
- Margaret Clay FergusonAmerican botanist (1863–1951)
- Margaret Collingridge WheelerAustralian archaeologist
- Margaret ConkeyAmerican archaeologist
- Margaret CraighillAmerican psychiatrist
- Margaret E. BradshawMargaret Elizabeth Bradshaw, MBE (born January 1926) is an English botanist and conservati
- Margaret E. KnightAmerican inventor (1838–1914)
- Margaret E. MartinAmerican economist and statistician (1912-2012)
- Margaret Floy WashburnAmerican psychologist and scholar (1871–1939)
- Margaret GattyBritish writer and marine biologist (1809–1873)
- Margaret H. WrightAmerican computer scientist and applied mathematician (b. 1944)
- Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)American software engineer (born 1936)
- Margaret HerschelMargaret, Lady Herschel (née Brodie Stewart; 1810–1884) was a British botanical artist and
- Margaret Hurlstone Hardy FalldingMargaret Hurlstone Hardy Fallding (July 18, 1920 – May 30, 2004) was a developmental biolo
- Margaret J.A. SimpsonScotland-born New Zealand botanist, botanical collector, and mountaineer (1920–1996)
- Margaret Lindsay HugginsIrish-English astronomer (1848–1915)
- Margaret LivingstoneAmerican neuroscientist
- Margaret MunghereraUgandan physician
- Margaret MurnaneIrish physicist (born 1959)
- Margaret NewtonPhytopathologist and mycologist
- Margaret Oakley Dayhoff AwardAmerican award given for biophysical research
- Margaret PittmanAmerican bacteriologist
- Margaret R. FoxAmerican electronics engineer
- Margaret Ridley CharltonMargaret Charlton (10 December 1858 – 1 May 1931) was a pioneering Canadian medical librar
- Margaret RobinsonMargaret Scott Robinson (born 1951) is a British molecular cell biologist, a professor and
- Margaret Stanley (virologist)British virologist
- Margaret W. RossiterAmerican historian (1944–2025)
- Margarita Nolasco ArmasMexican anthropologist
- Margarita SalasSpanish biochemist
- Margo SeltzerAmerican computer scientist
- Marguerite DavisAmerican chemist
- Marguerite PereyFrench physicist (1909–1975)
- Marguerite YonFrench archaeologist and Historian
- Maria AbbracchioItalian pharmacologist
- María Adela CaríaArgentine bacteriologist
- María Antonia HerreroSpanish researcher and chemist
- Maria Carmela LicoItalian-Brazilian physiologist
- Maria Clara EimmartGerman astronomer and engraver (1676–1707)
- Maria Cristina FacchiniItalian geoscientist
- Maria CunitzGerman astronomer (1610–1664)
- Maria Eugenia BozzoliCosta Rican anthropologist, sociologist and activist
- Maria Gaetana AgnesiItalian mathematician and philanthropist (1718–1799)
- Maria Goeppert MayerGerman–American physicist (1906–1972)
- Maria Grazia SpillantiniItalian neuroscientist
- Maria KlaweCanadian-American academic administrator
- Maria LeptinGerman developmental biologist and immunologist (born 1954)
- María Luisa Pérez-SobaFirst female agricultural engineer in Galicia. (1930 – 2021)
- Maria ManaseinaRussian physician
- Maria Margaretha KirchGerman astronomer (1670–1720)
- Maria Medina CoeliItalian scientist (1764–1846)
- Maria MesnerAustrian historian and archivist
- Maria MitchellAmerican astronomer (1818–1889)
- Maria PavlovaUkrainian paleontologist
- Maria Sibylla MerianGerman naturalist and artist (1647–1717)
- María Teresa Miras PortugalSpanish scientist (1948–2021)
- Maria WilmanSouth African botanist (1867–1957)
- Maria WonenburgerSpanish mathematician (1927–2014)
- Maria ZuberAmerican geophysicist (born 1958)
- Marianne AngermannSpanish–New Zealand biochemist (1904–1977)
- Marianne Grunberg-ManagoFrench biochemist (1921–2013)
- Marianne WeberGerman women's rights activist and legal historian
- Marie Boas HallAmerican historian of science (1919 – 2009)
- Marie BoivinFrench midwife, inventor and writer (1773–1841)
- Marie CassidyPathologist, professor of forensic medicine
- Marie Elizabeth ZakrzewskaPolish-American female physician
- Marie Maynard DalyAmerican biochemist
- Marie MorisawaAmerican geomorphologist
- Marie StopesBritish birth control campaigner and palaeobotanist (1880–1958)
- Marie TaylorAmerican botanist (1911–1990)
- Marie-Anne Paulze LavoisierFrench chemist and noblewoman (1758–1836)
- Marie-Hélène SchwartzFrench mathematician (1913–2013)
- Marie-Louise Lachapelle18th and 19th-century French midwife
- Marija ŠimanskaLatvian chemist of Polish heritage
- Marija Strojnik SchollSlovene astrophysicist
- Marina ElliottCanadian biological anthropologist
- Marina RatnerAmerican mathematician (1938–2017)
- Marinda Li WuAmerican chemist
- Mario MolinaMexican chemist (1943–2020)
- Marion BidderEnglish physiologist and writer
- Marion Ross (physicist)Marion Amelia Spence Ross FRSE (9 April 1903 – 3 January 1994) was a Scottish physicist no
- Marion TalbotAmerican women's educator (1858–1948)
- Marius Barnard (surgeon)Marius Stephanus Barnard (3 November 1927 – 14 November 2014) was a South African cardiac
- Mariza CorrêaBrazilian anthropologist
- Marjorie Courtenay-LatimerSouth African naturalist (1907–2004)
- Marjorie MussettBritish biologist and endocrinologist
- Marjorie RiceAmerican amateur mathematician (1923–2017)
- Marjory StephensonBritish biochemist (1885–1948)
- Mark OliphantAustralian physicist (1901–2000)
- Mark W. GrinstaffMark W. Grinstaff (born May 23, 1965) is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Profes
- Mark W. OlsonMark Walter Olson (March 17, 1943 – September 12, 2018) was an American economist and bank
- Marla SokolowskiEcologist and evolutionary biologist
- Marlin, TexasMarlin is a city in Falls County, Texas, United States. Its population was 5,462 at the 20
- Marlyn MeltzerMarlyn Wescoff Meltzer (1922 – December 7, 2008) was an American mathematician and compute
- Married LoveMarried Love or Love in Marriage is a book by British academic Marie Stopes. It was one of
- Martha ChaseAmerican geneticist
- Martha CroneAmerican botanist and horticulturalist
- Martha L. LudwigAmerican biochemist
- Martha PollackAmerican computer scientist
- Martha Rhoads BellAmerican archaeologist
- Martha TracyAmerican physician and educator (1876–1942)
- Marthe GautierFrench physician (1925–2022)
- Marthe VogtGerman neuroscientist (1903–2003)
- Martin A. BennettMartin Arthur Bennett FRS is an Australian inorganic chemist. He gained recognition for st
- Martin Cooper (inventor)American engineer (born 1928)
- Martin GardnerAmerican mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
- Martin Heinrich KlaprothGerman chemist (1743–1817)
- Martin J. S. RudwickMartin John Spencer Rudwick (born 1932) is a British geologist, historian, and academic. R
- Martin Lewis PerlAmerican scientist
- Martin RyleEnglish radio astronomer (1918–1984)
- Martin SchwarzschildMartin Schwarzschild (May 31, 1912 – April 10, 1997) was a German-American astrophysicist.
- Martinus BeijerinckDutch microbiologist (1851–1931)
- Martinus J. G. VeltmanDutch theoretical physicist (1931–2021)
- Marvin GreenbergMarvin Jay Greenberg (December 22, 1935 – December 12, 2017) was an American mathematician
- Marvin MinskyAmerican cognitive scientist (1927–2016)
- Mary Agnes ChaseAmerican botanist (1869–1963)
- Mary Alice McWhinnieAmerican biologist and academic (1922–1980)
- Mary Ann BoothAmerican microscopist, photographer
- Mary AnningEnglish fossil collector and palaeontologist (1799–1847)
- Mary Bartlett BungeAmerican neuroscientist (1931–2024)
- Mary BealeEnglish painter (1633–1699)
- Mary Benedict CushingMary Benedict Cushing Astor Fosburgh (January 27, 1906 – November 4, 1978) was an American
- Mary BernheimBritish biochemist
- Mary BranckerBritish veterinarian
- Mary BucklandBritish palaeontologist, marine biologist and scientific illustrator
- Mary C. LobbanBritish physiologist
- Mary CartwrightBritish mathematician (1900–1998)
- Mary E. BrunkowAmerican molecular biologist (born 1961)
- Mary Ellen AveryAmerican pediatrician
- Mary Ellen Jones (chemist)American biochemist
- Mary Ellen RudinAmerican mathematician (1924–2013)
- Mary Ethel FloreyMary Ethel Florey (née Hayter Reed), Baroness Florey (1 October 1900 – 10 October 1966) wa
- Mary GibbyBritish botanist (1949–2024)
- Mary Gordon CalderScottish paleobotanist
- Mary Haviland Stilwell KueselPioneer American dentist
- Mary Higby SchweitzerAmerican paleontologist
- Mary J. RathbunAmerican carcinologist
- Mary Jackson (engineer)American aerospace engineer (1921–2005)
- Mary Jane IrwinAmerican computer scientist
- Mary Jane OsbornAmerican biochemist and molecular biologist (1927–2019)
- Mary L. CleaveAmerican astronaut and engineer (1947–2023)
- Mary Letitia CaldwellAmerican chemist (1890–1972)
- Mary Locke PetermannAmerican cellular biochemist
- Mary Louisa ArmittAmerican librarian and author
- Mary Louisa WillardAmerican forensic scientist (1898–1993)
- Mary Lura SherrillAmerican chemist (1888–1968)
- Mary Putnam JacobiAmerican physician, educator, and activist (1842–1906)
- Mary R. CalvertAmerican astronomer (1884–1974)
- Mary R. SomervilleMary R. Somerville is an American librarian who served as president of the American Librar
- Mary Ross EllingsonClassical archaeologist
- Mary SeacoleJamaican-British nurse and businesswoman (1805–1881)
- Mary Sears (oceanographer)American oceanographer
- Mary SomervilleScottish scientist (1780–1872)
- Mary Sophie YoungAmerican botanist (c.1872–1919)
- Mary Styles HarrisAmerican geneticist
- Mary the JewessFirst Western alchemist (1st century)
- Mary TreatAmerican biologist (1830–1923)
- Mary TsingouMary Tsingou (married name: Mary Tsingou-Menzel; born October 14, 1928) is an American phy
- Mary Van Rensselaer BuellAmerican biochemist, working in nutrition and physiological chemistry
- Mary VoytekDirector of NASA Astrobiology Program and USGS microbiologist
- Mary Watson WhitneyAmerican astronomer (1847–1921)
- Mary WheelerAmerican mathematician
- Maryam MirzakhaniIranian mathematician (1977–2017)
- Maryna ViazovskaUkrainian mathematician (born 1984)
- Masaka DistrictMasaka District is a district in Buganda Kingdom in Uganda. Its main town is Masaka City,
- Masatoshi KoshibaJapanese physicist (1926–2020)
- Materials Research SocietyThe Materials Research Society (MRS) is a non-profit, professional organization for materi
- Mathai JosephMathai Joseph is an Indian computer scientist and author.
- Mathematical BiologyMathematical Biology is a two-part monograph on mathematical biology first published in 19
- Mathematics and Plausible ReasoningMathematics and Plausible Reasoning is a two-volume book by the mathematician George Pólya
- Mathieu OrfilaSpanish toxicologist and chemist (1787–1853)
- Matilda effectBias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists
- Matilda EvansAfrican-American physician (1866–1935)
- Matilda Moldenhauer BrooksAmerican cell biologist
- MatrinameA matrilineal surname or matriname is a family name inherited from one's mother, and mater
- Matter power spectrumThe matter power spectrum describes the density contrast of the universe (the difference b
- Matthew Fontaine MauryAmerican oceanographer and naval officer (1806–1873)
- Maud Kamatenesi MugishaUgandan natural scientist and academic administrator
- Maud MentenCanadian physician and chemist (1879–1960)
- Maude AbbottCanadian physician (1868/69–1940)
- Maureen KimenyeKenyan physician and medical administrator
- Maurice EwingAmerican geophysicist and oceanographer (1906–1974)
- Maurice HillemanAmerican vaccinologist (1919–2005)
- Maurice Sanford FoxMaurice Sanford Fox (October 11, 1924 – January 26, 2020) was an American geneticist and m
- Maurice WilkesBritish computer scientist (1913–2010)
- Maurice WilkinsNew Zealand-born British biophysicist (1916–2004)
- MauveineMauveine, also known as aniline purple and Perkin's mauve, was one of the first synthetic
- Max BrücknerJohannes Max Brückner (5 August 1860 – 1 November 1934) was a German geometer, known for h
- Max Delbrück MedalThe Max Delbrück Medal has been awarded annually from 1992 to 2013 by the Max Delbrück Cen
- Max KaroubiMax Karoubi (French: ) is a French mathematician, topologist, who works on K-theory, cycli
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial PhysicsThe Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics is part of the Max Planck Society, l
- Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding ResearchThe Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research was founded in Müncheberg, Germany in
- Max TheilerSouth African-American virologist and physician
- Max von LaueGerman physicist (1879–1960)
- Max WestenhöferMax Westenhöfer (February 9, 1871 – September 25, 1957) was a German pathologist and biolo
- Maxine D. BrownAmerican computer scientist
- Maxwell–Lodge effectThe Maxwell-Lodge effect is a phenomenon of electromagnetic induction in which an electric
- May Edward ChinnAmerican physician (1896–1980)
- May OwenTexas physician
- May-Britt MoserNorwegian psychologist and neuroscientist (born 1963)
- Maya PaczuskiPhysicist
- Maynard OlsonMaynard Victor Olson is an American chemist and molecular biologist. As a professor of gen
- Mayuge DistrictMayuge District is a district in Eastern Uganda. Like many other Ugandan districts, it is
- McMath–Pierce solar telescopeMcMath–Pierce solar telescope is a 1.6 m f/54 reflecting solar telescope at Kitt Peak Nati
- Mdm2Mouse double minute 2 homolog (MDM2) also known as E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase Mdm2 is a p
- Medical Journal of AustraliaThe Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 22 tim
- Medical Library AssociationThe Medical Library Association (MLA) is a nonprofit educational organization with more th
- Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)The Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical
- Medical Women's FederationThe Medical Women's Federation is the largest UK body of women doctors. The organisation i
- Meghnad SahaIndian astrophysicist and politician (1893–1956)
- Melania CristescuCanadian biologist
- Melanie WoodAmerican mathematician (born 1981)
- Melba PhillipsAmerican physicist and science educator
- Melissa FranklinParticle physicist
- Melissa S. ClineAmerican biologist
- Melvin CalvinAmerican biochemist
- Melvin SchwartzAmerican physicist
- Member of the National Academy of SciencesAward given by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
- Menaechmus4th-century BC Greek mathematician
- Mercury-in-glass thermometerType of thermometer
- Merian familyThe Merian family is a patrician family of Basel, Switzerland. It consists of two branches
- Method of matched asymptotic expansionsIn mathematics, the method of matched asymptotic expansions is a common approach to findin
- Metropolitan Borough of HampsteadHampstead was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in London, England. It was an ancien
- Michael AbercrombieMichael Abercrombie FRS (14 August 1912 – 28 May 1979) was a British cell biologist and em
- Michael AtiyahBritish-Lebanese mathematician (1929–2019)
- Michael D. MorleyMichael Darwin Morley (September 29, 1930 – October 11, 2020) was an American mathematicia
- Michael DeBakeyAmerican surgeon and innovator (1908–2008)
- Michael E. BrownAmerican astronomer (born 1965)
- Michael E. MannAmerican physicist and climatologist
- Michael LubyMichael George Luby is a mathematician and computer scientist, CEO of BitRipple, senior re
- Michael PuruggananMichael D. Purugganan (born Manila, Philippines in 1963) is a Filipino-American biologist
- Michael Schick (physicist)Michael Schick is a physicist and an academic. He is a professor emeritus at the Universit
- Michael SendivogiusPolish alchemist, philosopher, and medical doctor (1566–1636)
- Michael Servetus16th-century Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist
- Michel MayorSwiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
- Michèle VergneFrench mathematician
- Michelle R. ArkinMichelle R. Arkin is an American chemical biologist who is the Thomas William and Frederic
- Michelle Rogan-FinnemoreAmerican geologist
- Michelle ThallerAmerican astronomer, scientist, and science communicator
- Michio KakuAmerican theoretical physicist, futurist and author
- MicrobundleIn mathematics, a microbundle is a generalization of the concept of vector bundle, introdu
- Microsoft IgniteMicrosoft Ignite is an annual conference for developers, IT professionals and partners, ho
- MiddleboxA middlebox is a computer networking device that transforms, inspects, filters, and manipu
- Mikhael Gromov (mathematician)Russian-French mathematician
- Mikhail BudykoSoviet-Russian climatologist (1920 – 2001)
- Mikhail KalashnikovRussian firearms designer (1919–2013)
- Mildred CohnAmerican biochemist (1913–2009)
- Mildred DresselhausAmerican physicist and nanotechnologist (1930–2017)
- Mildred TrotterAmerican anthropologist
- Military CrossBritish military decoration
- Milnor numberIn mathematics, and particularly singularity theory, the Milnor number, named after John M
- Milutin MilankovićSerbian scientist and professor (1879–1958)
- Mina BissellIranian-American biologist
- Mina ReesAmerican mathematician (1902–1997)
- Ministry of SupplyThe Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK government formed on 1 August 1939
- Minnie AbercrombieBritish zoologist, educationalist and psychologist
- Miriam KastnerAmerican oceanographer and geochemist (born 1935)
- Miriam RothschildBritish natural scientist and author
- Mission specialistMission specialist (MS) is a term for a specific position held by astronauts who are taske
- MIT Radiation LaboratoryWorld War II radar research organization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Möbius configurationIn geometry, the Möbius configuration or Möbius tetrads is a certain configuration in Eucl
- Möbius–Kantor configurationIn geometry, the Möbius–Kantor configuration is a configuration consisting of eight points
- Moira BrownCanadian marine biologist
- Moira DunbarScottish-Canadian Arctic ice researcher
- Molecular beamA molecular beam is produced by allowing a gas at higher pressure to expand through a smal
- Molecular drag pumpA molecular drag pump is a type of vacuum pump that utilizes the drag of air molecules aga
- Molly ShoichetCanadian biomedical engineer
- Mona Chalmers WatsonBritish physician and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
- Monica MuseneroUgandan veterinarian and epidemiologist
- MonsoniaMonsonia is a genus of plants in the family Geraniaceae. It is named after Lady Anne Monso
- Mooney (radio programme)Mooney (successor to Mooney Goes Wild) is an Irish radio programme broadcast on RTÉ Radio
- Mordell–Weil groupIn arithmetic geometry, the Mordell–Weil group is an abelian group associated to any abeli
- Mormonism and womenRelationship of women to the Latter Day Saint movement
- Morten P. MeldalMorten Peter Meldal (born 16 January 1954) is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. He is a
- Motibai KapadiaIndian physician (1867–1930)
- Motoo KimuraJapanese biologist (1924–1994)
- Mott polynomialsIn mathematics the Mott polynomials sn(x) are polynomials given by the exponential generat
- Mott–Schottky equationThe Mott–Schottky equation relates the capacitance to the applied voltage across a semicon
- Mullard Radio Astronomy ObservatoryThe Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) is located near Cambridge, UK and is home t
- Mulliken population analysisMulliken charges arise from the Mulliken population analysis and provide a means of estima
- Muriel OnslowEnglish biochemist
- Myrtelle CanavanAmerican physician (1879-1953)
- Myrtle BachelderAmerican chemist and officer (1908–1997)